Maximise Your Research Portfolio: Communicate Your

Scholarly and Research Activity Presentation at the Bio-Protection Research Centre Seminar Series

Roger G. Dawson and Sarah L. Tritt - 11 December 2013

Claim Your Space in the global

research community

What are your goals?

• Research active, enquiring and innovative? • Achieve high impact publications? • Respected in the academic community? • Make a contribution to global knowledge? • Remembered for credibility and reputation? • Develop your career, work with the best?

Claim Your Space • Where do you store your research outputs? • How does professional and social media

support your research activity? • Are you part of the online scientific community? • Do you communicate with non scientists?

• Where are you in this process? • What are your research activities?

Where are your research outputs?

Research Activities

• Your thesis is your primary research output Supported by additional research activities: – Journal articles – Conference papers – Poster presentations – and more…

Versions of your activities

• Drafts; revisions • Preprint (pre peer-review) • Accepted manuscript (post peer-review) • Publishers version • VERSIONS Toolkit

London School of Economics guidelines for authors from all disciplines

Versions of your activities Why are versions important?

• Record of your development as researcher e.g working paper or a thesis chapter may develop into a journal article

• Some publishers allow the publishers version to be included in an open access Research Archive (LURA) – Increases your visibility as a researcher – Increases your citations, can also count your downloads

• Submit final version of your work to your publisher • Submit your Open Access version to LURA

Research Archive

Embargoes • Ideally collect the majority of your outputs

– Excel? Endnote?

• You control the timing of open access – Single release date, when your thesis is

released you could release associated works – For Journal Impact Factors - see Journal

Citation Report (doesn’t include all journal titles)

Open Access July 2013 Lincoln University adopted OA policy • Publically funded research should be

publically available • Depositing outputs to the Research Archive

is encouraged • Theses mandated 2008 • Publish in OA Journals? • Journals@Lincoln

Copyright

• Creative Commons – choose a licence for your work – manage how your work is reused

• Copyright – you retain copyright – LURA non exclusive and Creative Commons

• Publishers contracts – know your rights when you sign over copyright to Publishers

Publishers contracts

• For information on publishing agreements go to Information for Authors on a publisher or journal web site, for example: – Elsevier – Sage – Taylor & Francis – Wiley Blackwell

Author Rights

SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) provides further information regarding Author Rights. The SPARC Author Addendum is a legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles.

Lincoln University Research Archive

• Roché Mahon(e.g. LEAP reports)

• Chintanu Sarmah (e.g. Journal articles, incl. publishers version, thesis)

• Pranoy Pal (e.g. LU conference presentations; overseas conference presentations; Limited Access to one item)

• Lise Morton (e.g. Journal article; LU Research Proposal; overseas conference; PhD thesis )

• Bailey Peryman (e.g. LU Conference presentation; External report; OJS article)

Research Data • Will you also be publishing data? • Have you got a Data Management Plan? • Will your data be published with an article?

• Use discipline specific data sites

Why Publish Data?

• Journal articles with published datasets get more citations

• Publishing data could prove you were first • Maintain confidentiality, cultural sensitivity

• Negative data? • Join figshare • Multiuse site

Professional Media and

Social Media

Professional or Career Portfolio

What might a professional portfolio include?

• List of your publications and research outputs with links where possible

• Examples of data • Curriculum vitae • Personal website and blog

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/Other_Business_Conce_g200-Job_p113963.html

Research Profile

• ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher

• ResearcherID provides a solution to the author ambiguity problem within the scholarly research community, each member is assigned a unique identifier

Networking Linking to other research colleagues • Professional media or social media?

–LinkedIn –Twitter –Facebook ×

• Blogs – Wordpress e.g.TheComfortPursuit • Use email signature

Networking

• MyNetResearch • Academici • Academia.edu • ResearchGate

Lincoln University Community Archive

Personal Profiles • Roché Mahon • Juliane Diamond • Silvia Tavares

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Roche Mahon in LUCA Link to her LinkedIn profile Link to her research outputs in LUCA

Showcasing Research

Lincoln University

• Careerhub

• Alumnilinc

Lincoln University Archives

Raise your professional profile Enable access to your scholarly activity Extend and use your networks Socialise outputs Underline your credibility Build peer esteem CLAIM YOUR SPACE Curate your

research Be reflective Emerge as a professional Reputation Publish Marketable identity Enhance your marketability Maximise your research outputs Develop your professional presence Recognise your strengths achievements reflective

Optimise professional media Research profile

Bibliography

• Bik HM, Goldstein MC (2013) An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists. PLoS Biol 11(4): e1001535. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001535

• Piwowar HA, Vision TJ. (2013) Data reuse and the open data citation advantage. PeerJ 1:e175 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.175

Library, Teaching and Learning Contacts Roger.Dawson@lincoln.ac.nz – LTL Research Advice Sarah.Tritt@lincoln.ac.nz – LTL Research Advice Michelle.Ash@lincoln.ac.nz – LTL Careers Advice Lincoln University Research Archive Lincoln University Community Archive Lincoln University CareerHub Lincoln University AlumniLinc

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